i just made this right now, after trembling at my first professional correspondence with an old highschool friend.

  • sweeny@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Rhetoric like this discourages women from becoming engineers, saying that a female tech lead isn’t even a possibility is pretty sexist. For the record, if you had just said “he” without the sassy parenthetical I wouldn’t have batted an eye.

    *Now that I think about it, pretty sexist is an understatement, it’s just plain sexist. Female tech leads exist, look it up, and stop perpetuating sexist ideas in tech

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      I apologize. That was meant to be a humorous commiseration on the state of a profession that tends to be gender biased, but clearly I missed.